Core challenges of social robot navigation: A survey

C Mavrogiannis, F Baldini, A Wang, D Zhao… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Robot navigation in crowded public spaces is a complex task that requires addressing a
variety of engineering and human factors challenges. These challenges have motivated a …

Social momentum: Design and evaluation of a framework for socially competent robot navigation

C Mavrogiannis, P Alves-Oliveira… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Mobile robots struggle to integrate seamlessly in crowded environments such as pedestrian
scenes, often disrupting human activity. One obstacle preventing their smooth integration is …

Technological applications of social robots to create healthy and comfortable smart home environment

H Kim, M Kong, S Jung, J Jeoung, H Kang… - Building and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing demand for healthy and comfortable living environments has driven
significant advancements in smart home technology. However, current developments often …

[PDF][PDF] Prevention and resolution of conflicts in social navigation–a survey

R Mirsky, X Xiao, J Hart, P Stone - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.12113, 2021 - cs.utexas.edu
With the approaching goal of having robots collaborate in shared human-robot
environments, navigation in this context becomes both crucial and desirable. Recent …

Human-like motion planning based on game theoretic decision making

A Turnwald, D Wollherr - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2019 - Springer
Robot motion planners are increasingly being equipped with an intriguing property: human
likeness. This property can enhance human–robot interactions and is essential for a …

Social momentum: A framework for legible navigation in dynamic multi-agent environments

CI Mavrogiannis, WB Thomason… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Intent-expressive robot motion has been shown to result in increased efficiency and reduced
planning efforts for copresent humans. Existing frameworks for generating intent-expressive …

Experiments on the artificial potential field with local attractors for mobile robot navigation

M Melchiorre, L Salamina, LS Scimmi, S Mauro… - Robotics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Obstacle avoidance is a challenging task in robot navigation, as it requires efficient and
reliable methods to avoid collision and reach the desired goal. Artificial potential field …

Multi-agent path topology in support of socially competent navigation planning

CI Mavrogiannis, RA Knepper - The International Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a navigation planning framework for dynamic, multi-agent environments, where
no explicit communication takes place among agents. Inspired by the collaborative nature of …

From crowd simulation to robot navigation in crowds

T Fraichard, V Levesy - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents the result of a study aiming at investigating to what extent the results
obtained in the Crowd Simulation domain could be used to control a mobile robot navigating …

Conflict Avoidance in Social Navigation—A Survey

R Mirsky, X Xiao, J Hart, P Stone - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
A major goal in robotics is to enable intelligent mobile robots to operate smoothly in shared
human-robot environments. One of the most fundamental capabilities in service of this goal …